I have the GL-MT6000. Before I bought this router, I was using OpenWRT 18.x (or similar version) which I installed myself on a Linksys router.
I would like to do the following:
Set up a permanent VPN connection to NordVPN - they support OpenVPN for example
Route all traffic matching https://imgur.com/* or https://*.imgur.com/* to this VPN
All other traffic is unaffected
If it’s not possible or easy to do it by URL, it’d probably work to do it via IP also.
Point 1 is easy enough, but I don’t know where to look for point 2. I can dig into the weeds of re-learning OpenWRT etc, but I was wondering if maybe there’s a quick and easy way through the GL iNet interface which someone could point me towards?
Never mind! Sorry for the dumb post. I should have just looked into it myself, it’s so easy.
In case anyone else finds this thread and wants to know, here are the steps:
Open the GL iNet interface
Left sidebar: VPN → OpenVPN Client
NordVPN was immediately shown to me as a possible client
I selected that, and it asked me for my NordVPN credentials, with a simple tutorial as to how to get that
Then I entered what countries I was interested in, and it automatically downloaded a list of servers
I added one of those servers, clicked connect, and confirmed that all of my internet traffic was now going through NordVPN.
Then in the VPN Dashboard, top right, I changed from “Global Mode” to “Policy Mode”
Now I can specify From/To rules against NordVPN. In my case, in the To rules, I specified imgur.com as the target
And that was it! Now I have all normal traffic going direct to the net, but imgur.com going through the VPN.
I love this, it’s awesome. This is exactly why I bought the GL router when I needed to upgrade; I wanted the power of OpenWRT under the hood, but also a nicer UI where I could do basic tasks easily.
It’s taken me 18 months until I actually had a router task I needed to do But now I have, it was just as easy as I hoped.
But now I have, it was just as easy as I hoped.